filmaffinity.com looks like another useful tool to get recommendations for your viewing pleasure-once more of us start rating! It's in English and Spanish now (with more languages yet to come). Movielens seems promising as well. IMDb Pro looks cool too, though I haven't gone that far. However, this guy says beware!!posted by HyperBlue (11 comments total)

From the last link:

University of Minnesota computer science professor John Riedl loves the potential of recommender programs, having created one himself. But he also studies and fears the potential abuses.

"It's scary," said Riedl, whose research group has proven that people can be manipulated into renting certain movies by showing them bogus approval ratings generated by a computer. Unscrupulous marketers can "shill" for products that make them a higher profit, he said. Movie studios could flood recommender sites with high ratings of their own movies.

"Even naive attempts to shill can work, and you have to be pretty sophisticated to detect them," Riedl said.posted by HyperBlue at 8:09 PM on January 30, 2005

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